• Question: what got you intrested in science at school?

    Asked by josh to Becky, Becky, Carrie, Kelly, Robin, Usaid on 13 Mar 2012. This question was also asked by holly13, florencebeanbag.
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      Becky Selwyn answered on 13 Mar 2012:

      Hi Josh. I loved understanding how things work and learning the theory behind why they work. I didn’t always enjoy the experiments but I enjoyed the equations. I liked maths too, but science was more practical and relevant to life than maths. Maths seemed a bit like just learning how to do things because the teacher says so, whereas in science when you learn something it helps you understand how the world works. Becky

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      Robin Stafford Allen answered on 20 Mar 2012:

      · I had the most amazing father who was an aeronautical engineer (designs aeroplanes) and was a flight engineer in the RAF in the war. He used to encourage me to take the lawnmower or the rotivator to bits and repair them, and then I had a small motorbike (BSA) and my first car when I was 12, which of course could only be driven about 50 yards as it was not, of course, allowed on the roads (it was too old and i was too young!), but I could take it to bits and put it back together to keep it going. I then had a couple of really good teachers teaching Maths and Physics and that set me up , although i was a bad student in some subjects – I once scored 6% in a History exam! Regards Robin

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